If you look at history as a series of paintings, the role of a series like this really is to frame it. Read more
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Kingdom 3 – 21
Any way you slice it that was some tremendous drama right there. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 04
That was a real audience pleaser of an episode. Both of us... Read more
Kingdom 4 – 16
And then there's Lu Buwei. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 17
Every so often Kingdom - which is really good all the time - has one of those episodes. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 02
Why does Lu look so pleased with himself? Read more
Kingdom 4 – 10
This episode is really a study in contrasts between the new and old blood. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 01
As usual, completely great and almost completely ignored. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 12
Everybody meet as Wu’s place. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 18
The gloves are off now. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 13
You may think you've got family problems... Read more
Kingdom 4 – 14
Now that's what I call nation building. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 05
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" is not a problem for Zheng. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 07
This should be a good test of Kingdom's plot armor, if nothing else. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 09
Pretty reliably, once or so a season, I go through a cycle of self-doubt with Kingdom. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 19
What we're seeing on Kingdom right now is just great drama, plain and simple. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 20
They call it historical fiction for a reason. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 03
Great, more names... Read more
Kingdom 4 – 23
I can't be the only one to notice that look on Meng Yi's face, can I? Read more
Kingdom 4 – 22
A truly great story is often many great stories, and Kingdom is one such example. Read more
Kingdom 4 – 15
We're about to reach one of the critical nexus points in the story. Read more
First Impressions – Kingdom 4
As I am duty-bound to do with each new season of Kingdom, I want to give my thoughts now that we’re five episodes deep into Kingdom 4 –…
Girls Kingdom, Vol. 4
By Nayo and Shio Sakura. Released in Japan by GL Bunko. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Translated by Philip Reuben. Because a series such as Girls…
Girls Kingdom, Volume 4
When I tell you that Girls Kingdom, Volume 4 is worth reading, please understand that I am 100% aware of what I am saying. The series is, thusfar,…
Kingdom 4 – 24-25
There's no disguising what this dream of Zheng's really is no matter how noble its supposed aim. Read more
Manga the Week of 4/21/21
SEAN: The end of April, and the daffodils are blooming. What manga do we have? Airship gives us a print version of the 10th Mushoku Tensei novel and…
Full Metal Panic!, Ragnarok the Animation, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
Dump a Week, 15/4 – 21/4
I watched some less anime this week. This is an intro blurb. Is this an intro blurb? This is an intro blurb. Is it though? This is an intro…
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom episode 21
Rating: 3.5 Last week I made a number of suppositions about why Roroa appeared before Kazuya and offered to become his wife and why he would probably accept…
Bookshelf Briefs 4/16/21
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, Vol. 9 | By Inio Asano | Viz Media – By the ninth volume of Dead Dead Demon, any hope that this series…
Bookshelf Briefs 10/4/21
Do You Like Big Girls?, Vol. 1 | By Goro Aizome | Ghost Ship – The cover art and publisher of this particular title tells you exactly what’s…
Bookshelf Briefs 1/4/21
Black Clover, Vol. 23 | By Yuki Tabata | Viz Media – Given we came to the end of a very long arc last time, it makes sense…
Bookshelf Briefs 4/21/22
Catch These Hands!, Vol. 1 | By murata | Yen Press – I’ve been enjoying the recent upswing in yuri manga starring actual adults and aimed at adults.…
Bookshelf Briefs 5/4/21
Days on Fes, Vol. 1 | By Kanato Oka | Yen Press A manga about the joys of music festivals is something we’ve seen before, but usually it’s…
What I Watched This Week – 4/21 – 4/27
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Sometimes I watch an anime and I low key dread putting a rating on or trying to write about it. I…
Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
By Shelley Pallis. After a millennium of warfare, the rival kingdoms of Alhamit and Balkari have finally fought each other to a standstill. In a frankly ill-conceived plan…
Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom
The film sticks so closely to the source material tha the nearly two-hour run time is almost a frame-by-frame animated retelling of the single-volume manga.
How A Realist Hero Rebuilt The Kingdom ep 4
Note: Click here to skip to the “Other Series I Am Following” part Tomoe and Kazuya Rating (first half of ep 4): 4 (of 5) Rating (second half…
Manga the Week of 8/4/21
SEAN: August! Is there any dog manga? MICHELLE: Guru Guru Pon-chan? SEAN: Airship has two print debuts of light novels we’ve talked about before when the early digital…
Manga the Week of 4/14/21
SEAN: There certainly is a lot of manga coming out. Remember years ago when some weeks had three or four titles? ASH: It’s almost unimaginable any more. SEAN:…
End of March Update 4/9/21
A therapeutic, if unproductive, March 2021 has come and gone.
Visual Novel Translation Status (21/4/24)
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Manga the Week of 4/7/21
SEAN: April! Maple! Let’s do the list backwards this time! This means starting with Yen Press, who have precisely one manga out, but it is a debut. Please…
Manga the Week of 4/28/21
SEAN: The end of April and there’s still so much going on. Airship has two digital-early debuts. I Have a Secret (Kakushigoto) is the latest one-shot by the…
Boku no Hero Academia Season 4 – 21
It makes for an interesting story when the worst that can be said about its villain is that he's insensitive. Read more The post Boku no Hero Academia…
Kingdom of Z (Volume 4) – Zombie Masters of Martial Arts!
Their target, the zombified Takeshi Garou is in the ring waiting for his fight to begin. This might give them a chance to catch him, although there are…
Kingdom of the Z (Kingdom of Z)
This manga is about a group of high school students surviving in a world going through a zombie apocalypse. It has most of the standard story elements you…
Weekly Digest 4/25/21 – Shadows House, Shakunetsu Kabaddi
Anime giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other. Read more
Kingdom 5 – 02
This episode of Kingdom amounted to Xin - and Diao, actually - getting their asses kicked, pretty much.
Kingdom 3 – 07
The hero has to aspire to rise above all this chaos and brutality - to at least offer the possibility that all the fighting isn't completely a waste…
Kingdom 3 – 15
As I've said about Kingdom before, the big possums walk late. Read more
Kingdom 3 – 05
Last time on Kingdom... Read more